The authors

Harland Maxwell writes the long, unforgiving quests — the ones with maps in the front and a body count in the back. He has been building branching stories since he first ruined a perfectly good paperback with a pencil and a pocketful of dice.

Stephanie Maxwell writes for younger readers, and refuses to talk down to any of them. Her adventures are short, fast and full of decisions that matter, which is exactly what an eight-year-old wants from a book.

Natasha Winter came to gamebooks from crime fiction, and it shows. Her quests have suspects, motives and endings that will make you turn back a hundred pages to work out where it all went wrong. She also writes standalone novels for adults.